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Time: 5:30 PM
Fee: FREE
Location: Computer Associates
June's Meeting is Free
Thanks to Velociteach, there will be no entry fee for the June meeting. Pre-registration is still required.
Chapter Elections
We will hold elections for the chapter's President and Vice President of Finance positions. Please check out the article on the chapter's Web site for more information on how to nominate yourself or someone else for these positions. You will also find links to the job descriptions of these roles. You must be present at the meeting to vote.
Keynote Presentation
Ruth Anne Guerrero, former PMI Standards Manager, will discuss "PMI Standards - Today and Tomorrow" providing a general overview into standards and why they are important. She will discuss PMI's involvement with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Ruth Anne will highlight the history of PMI standards, and discuss several key PMI global standards including the PMBOK® Guide - Third Edition, The Standard for Program Management, The Standard for Portfolio Management, and Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®). She will provide information regarding how PMI standards are developed, what is currently underway, and describe the benefits of participation in the activities. Ruth Anne will encourage participation in the PMI standards initiatives, and provide information regarding how to get involved.
Speaker's Bio
Previous Position
Ruth Anne Guerrero, MBA, PMP, former PMI Standards Manager, has more than 15 years of experience in project management and has been an active PMI member and volunteer leader for over six years. She has long been involved in standardizing and improving ways that organizations run projects.
Past Experience
Most recently, Ruth Anne was vice president for JPMorgan Chase Cardmember Services, where she was responsible for establishing and administering the project management center of excellence, a project office, and project management competency and training center, which coordinated 300 project managers worldwide. Ruth Anne established portfolio management processes for the enterprise, dedicating resources to projects that brought the most benefit.
Prior to JPMorgan Chase, Ruth Anne held the position of senior manager, metrics and service for Cablevision Systems Corporation, where she established project and portfolio metrics in the IT area. She benchmarked organizational project performance, introduced standardized project tracking and reporting and improved project execution. Before becoming involved in more senior positions, Ruth Anne was a practicing project manager, helping run large IT projects for the Long Island Lighting Company.
Membership and Activities
Ruth Anne joined PMI in the late 1990s and was a founding member of the PMI Long Island Chapter. She served there as vice president of programs for five years. When her job transferred her to the Philadelphia area, she became a volunteer coordinator and director at large for the PMI Delaware Valley Chapter. She encourages PMI members to participate on volunteer teams that develop global project management standards as a way to get more involved in their profession.
Click here to download the presentation.
Meeting Pictures
Keynote Speaker Tom Mattus
Steve Potter and Jeff Stern
Howard Fritz and Christina Rodriguez
Click here to download the Meeting Minutes.
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